Ramey Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 2016

Blend: 82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Merlot, 6% Petit Verdot, 2% Malbec, 2% Cab Franc

94 Points - Wine Enthusiast

This wine vastly over-delivers on its price point, a rarity in its category and peers. Made from grapes throughout the appellation, the majority from St. Helena, it blends in small amounts of Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and Cab Franc. Turned earth, spicy tobacco leaf and currant define its savoury, substantially structured elegance that offers room to age. 

93 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon also contains 8% Merlot, 6% Petit Verdot, 2% Malbec and 2% Cabernet Franc and was aged 28 months in 48% new French oak. Deep ruby in colour, it has pure, layered aromas of raspberry and cherry preserved with notes of cardamom, aniseed and rose petals. The full-bodied palate is intensely layered and aromatic, seamless and long. It's an elegant rendition of an appellation-wide Cabernet Sauvignon from what can be a rich, powerful vintage in Napa.

92 Points - Wine Spectator

This is a lively and engaging Cab, brimming with damson plum, red currant and bitter cherry fruit, liberally laced with sassafras, red tea and juniper accents. Fresh and open-knit through the finish.

92 Points - Jeb Dunnuck

This wine offers textbook, slightly old-school Cabernet notes of blackcurrants, cherries, sweet tobacco, cedar, and chocolate. It doesn't pull any punches on the palate and is ripe, medium to full-bodied, and beautifully textured, with a dense mid-palate, yet it brings good freshness, notable structure, and an excellent finish. It will keep for 15 years or more.